Trump Promises Megathread: Kept or Broken

[funhusker]

Very disappointed. Gonna have to say broken. This is no megathread!

Which is telling because the thread is to include promises "kept" also...

[QMany]

Well, Day 90 arrived.

 

[ZRod]

Very disappointed. Gonna have to say broken. This is no megathread!

Yeah, doesn't need to be too long when you can just put everything as broken in one neat list.

[QMany]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/847120001140166656

 

Coming up against 100-day pledges he made and hasn't come remotely close to keeping, Trump blames the standard and the media, of course.

 

[knapplc]

Please, Trump Believers, tell us how the liberals & the "failing media" are responsible for Trump's failures.

[zoogs]

Oh, dear. It's those ridiculous and unfair standards.

[QMany]

100-day accomplishments:

 

[BigRedBuster]

Wait a minute.....

 

Who put the standard of 100 days there? Isn't it candidates on the campaign trail who do that? Wasn't he the one who stood up in front of crowds and talked about all these things he was going to do in 100 days?

Who exactly is he blaming here it's not himself?

[BigRedBuster]

In fact, CNN just replayed the speech where he talked about his 100 day plan and he called it a contract between "Donald J. Trump and the American People.". Now it's ridiculous.

[Danny Bateman]

In fact, CNN just replayed the speech where he talked about his 100 day plan and he called it a contract between "Donald J. Trump and the American People.". Now it's ridiculous.

 

 

He has no one to blame but himself and his boisterous, boastful antics. If he's going to run his mouth about how great he is, he'll need to actually deliver instead of making excuses and blame-shifting.

[QMany]

[BigRedBuster]

Well, he did need to work on his golf game in Florida.

[Danny Bateman]

The best dealmaker, y'all:

 

Angela Merkel reportedly had to explain the 'fundamentals' of EU trade to Trump 11 times

 

President Trump did not understand that the US cannot negotiate a trade deal with Germany alone and must deal with the European Union as a bloc, a senior German official told The Times of London.

 

"Ten times Trump asked [German chancellor Angela Merkel] if he could negotiate a trade deal with Germany. Every time she replied, 'You can’t do a trade deal with Germany, only the EU,'" the official said.

They continued: "On the eleventh refusal, Trump finally got the message, 'Oh, we’ll do a deal with Europe then.'"

Merkel reportedly told her cabinet members that Trump had "very basic misunderstandings" on the "fundamentals" of the EU and trade.

 

I wonder how angry, disaffected working class voter in the Rust Belt feels about this bit, though... Particularly the segment that overlaps with the hateful, xenophobic group that actually believes Obama is a secret gay Muslim:

 

 

The conversation led Trump's administration to realize that it was more vital to US interests to nail down a trade deal with the EU than one with the UK post-Brexit, a source close to the White House told the Times.

 

Trump's new stance is similar to the one adopted by former president Barack Obama, who warned that the UK would be "at the back of the queue" if it followed through with Brexit.

[Nebfanatic]

Does this man do ANY research??

[TGHusker]

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/trump-backs-away-border/2017/04/24/id/786154/

 

As a part of the 'prevent govt shutdown' deal - Trump is backing away from - or delaying one of his primary first 100 days pledges - the boarder wall.

So priority # 1 - ObamaCare and priority # 2 Boarder wall have no fixed date to complete and priority #3 Tax reform has a shifting date.

I think we have to play "Keep the Eye on the Ball" here - and as we keep moving dates around - there will be a 'sense' of accomplishments but nothing really

accomplished. We or this administration cannot associate activity with accomplishment. There has been more activity, words and busyness in the 100

days then any admin I know of, but we still haven't seen the top promises come to pass.